Critical Post-Debate Moment

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This may not have gotten a lot of attention. But in the post-debate commentary, Chris Matthews had Howard Fineman and Roger Simon on. And Simon started in on some aggressive tire-swinging. And as this was happening, a member of the crowd raised this anti-tire-swinging sign. Here you see it behind Matthews. But it was raised in Simon’s line of sight and he would be the logical target since he was the clear tire swinger on the panel …

(ed.note: Special thanks to TPM Reader MC for catching this critical moment.)

Late Update: For a brief primer on tire-swinging, see this post.

So Late It’s Morning Update: Here’s the text version of Simon’s tire-swinging.

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